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Programs on Our Channels

Our programming is both locally originated and imported from other communities. Here is a list of programs produced at the Media Center or in nearby communities. To request updates to this page, please email us.

Abilities United
American Songwriter
Ask Dr. Business
Bay Area Cycling Scene
Bite Size Green
Chess Diva
Da Bay Show
The Painting Gourmet
Digiquest
EPA Black Solutions
Everyone's Yoga
Faces of Local Heroes
Fredrico's Kitchen
GABA Roundtable
God's Woman
Grace Lutheran Church

Green Takes...Action!
Hale I Ho'Omana
Heritage
Intern Projects
Jook Joint with EC Scott
Killen Report
Live Poets Society
Make The Call
MC Studio Class
MC Studio Session
Mom and Pop Business
Neal's Place
The Next Step
Orwell was an Optimist
Other Voices

Pushpanjali
PAUSD Board Meetings
PPJC Presents
Senior New Ways
She TV
Spirit Talk with Jean
The Stephanie Herman Show
Swara Lahari
Talk Art
Talking with Henrietta
Tanu Sia Ma'a Tonga TV
The Theater Factory
Teens4Christ
Toastmasters Bay to Bay
Veterans Helping Veterans
Youth Advisory Council


Abilities United Presents:
Community Connections

A program dedicated to those individuals living with a developmental or physical challenge. Abilities United is a not-for-profit organization which champions people with developmental and physical challenges and provides the training, education and support they need to lead the lives they choose.

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Abilities United Website


American Songwriter

American Songwriter Spotlights emerging Bay Area songwriters and bands. Each episode features a single band or performer playing their own original works. Host Becky Sanders interviews the performers between songs.

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Ask Dr. Business

Roy Blitzer hosts this live show on career development. He and his guest field live phone calls from the TV audience, dispensing advice on business development.

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Bay Area Cycling Scene

If you are a bicycling enthusiast and live in the San Francisco Bay Area, then this is your show. When you can't be on your bicycle, tune in for information about everything of interest to the bicycling enthusiast. You can learn more about the show and let us know what you'd like to see by going to our website and signing up for our newsletter and announcements.

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Bay Area Cycling Scene Website


Bite Size Green

Healthy food. Healthy body. Healthy planet. Join host Angelina LeGrix as she explores the people, places, and stories behind local, seasonal eating. Bite-size Green TV invites you along for the adventure, through our travels, cooking demonstrations and discussions with farmers, chefs, and other creators of marvelous menus.

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Excerpts of the Show
Bite Size Green Website


Chess Diva

Twin sisters, both nationally ranked chess players, teach chess strategy and talk with other chess players.

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The Chess Diva Blog


Da Bay Show

The premiere television show showcasing aspiring hip-hop artists along with interviews and special guest performances by popular Bay Area artists.

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Da Bayshow Website


Darlene Carman
The Painting Gourmet

Artist Darlene Carman provides a variety of creative art activities for children and adults.

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Digiquest

Youth-produced shows from the Media Center's Summer Video Production Camps.

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Find out more about the Media Center's Digiquest Summer Camps


EPA Black Solutions

Tiombe Jama discusses issues affecting the life of African Americans living in East Palo Alto.

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Everyone's Yoga

Join Yoga instructor Andrea Throndson in a beginning-to-intermediate yoga class. Experience the many physical and mental joys that a yoga practice can bring.

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Faces of Local Heroes

Six persons are chosen each year for this Media Center award, based on their outstanding contributions the community. See these riveting profile shows.

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Fredrico's Kitchen

Fredrico's Kitchen: the cooking show that teaches you how to make great meals from items you may already have at home.

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GABA Roundtable

The German American Business Association produces this monthly series.

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God's Woman

Reverend Mary Frazier tackles issues affecting the modern Christian.

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Grace Lutheran Church

We believe that, in Holy Communion, Jesus Christ is truly present in the breaking of bread andsharing of cup. Watch us at the Lord's Table. Persons, including children,who normally commune in their own fellowship, are welcome to share Holy Communion with us aswell.

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Green Takes...Action!

The Palo Alto Community Environmental Action Partnership is a citywide initiative which engages various segments of the Palo Alto community to create and implement sustainable environmental solutions. See what your neighbors and community leaders are doing to make and keep the mid-peninsula a Green Leader.
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Hale I Ho'Omana

Hawaiian themed Praise and Music show.

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Heritage

Heritage focuses on a different aspects of Palo Alto's history. It is produced by The Palo Alto Historical Association, which was established in 1948 to preserve materials pertaining to the history and heritage of Palo Alto, and to inform the public about Palo Alto's history through programs, exhibits, publications, and its newsletter.

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Palo Alto Historical Association's Website


Intern Projects

Features projects by Interns at the Media Center.

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Jook Joint
with EC Scott

Each week EC Scott takes us on a journey through the jazz world with her own performances, guest appearances and clips from some of the great blues houses.

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Website


Killen Report

Michael Killen and Charlie Class host an interview show covering local issues, arts, business and literature.

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Live Poets Society

Watch local poets share their inspiration and poetry.

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Make The Call

The East Palo Alto Police Department produces this show asking the community to help in solving cold cases.

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Media Center
Studio Class

YOU could be producing programs shown on our channels! Just take our popular Studio TV production class, and we'll train you in everything needed to produce a TV show--Cameras, Director, Switcher, Audio, Graphics, even on-camera talent! Our 5-night studio TV class is presented every month, and at the end the class a 1/2 hour TV show is produced. The MC Studio Class program shows the class project of the most recent TV Studio Production class. Check it out and sign up for the next class!
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Media Center
Studio Session

This series showcases local musicians in the coverage area of the Midpeninsula Community Media Center. For more information on appearing on this show, send email to info@midpenmedia.org

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Mom and Pop Business

East Palo Alto resident David Tschang shares the importance of small businesses to the community.

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Article on Mom & Pop Business


Neal's Place

Blues master Kenny Neal hosts this half hour series of amazing blues performances with a different guest each week.

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The Next Step

"The Next Step: Showcasing the art, music, literature, spirituality and politics of the evolving new consciousness" The Next Step is hosted by Daniel Kottke, and features an hour-long panel discussion on a topic of the day.

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Orwell was an Optimist

Short videos highlight and often lampoon governmental hijinx, produced by activist Paul George and Media Center producer TD.

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Other Voices

"Other Voices" is produced by Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, the local area's leading grassroots activist organization. "Other Voices" is a monthly interview program featuring experts, analysts and activists on a wide range of issue areas.

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Pushpanjali

Classical Indian dance.

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PAUSD Board Meetings

Gavel to gavel, live coverage of the bi-weekly school board meetings for PAUSD.

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Peninsula Peace & Justice Center Presents

"PPJC Presents" is produced by Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, the local area's leading grassroots activist organization. The series features videos from PPJC's extensive speaker series, with well-known speakers such as Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, and Robert Fisk.

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Senior New Ways

Senior New Ways is a multi-faith, non-profit organization providing programs, activities, resource referral, consultation, and support to older persons and their adult children and caregivers. We promote the wholeness - physical, mental, spiritual and social well being - of older adults in northern and central California. We are unique in providing a quality-tested array of innovative programs.

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Senior New Ways Website


She TV

Hosted by life coach Vicci Smith. Tune in as we learn about achieving dreams, living well and managing everyday life!

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She TV Website


Spirit Talk with Jean

Jean Ramaciotti hosts this monthly half hour show with guests discussing many forms of spirituality.

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The Stephanie Herman Show

Stephanie Herman, a former principle ballerina, takes us on a journey of Bay Area culture, often involving dance routines choreographed and performed by Stephanie herself. Stephanie also takes us around the peninsula, exploring fine hotels, restaurants and wineries.

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A Performance from "Agon"
Interview at La Belle Day Spa
Delaying Parkinson's Disease

Hot Moms/Dads, Max Bran Beat Band
Enjoying Napa
Enrich, Enhance, Enjoy


Swara Lahari

Weekly program of Indian classical music with a guest performer each episode.

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Talk Art

Let's Talk Art! Susan Kraft hosts an interview show featuring local artists.

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Talking with Henrietta

Talking with HenriettaTalking with Henrietta Henrietta Burroughs, a local journalist, hosts this twice-a-month public affairs program, frequently focused on East Palo Alto issues.

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Tanu Sia Ma'a Tonga TV

Tanu Sia Ma'a Tonga TV is the first TV program in the United States that is conducted in the Tongan language. Some of the content is conducted in English for the benefit of our younger viewers.

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The Theater Factory

Local theater productions are invited into the Media Center Studios to perform excerpts of upcoming and current productions. Theaters and production companies are profiled using in-studio interviews, and externally shot segments provide insights into the behind-the-scene processes that make a local production come to life.

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Teens4Christ

Local Teens discuss how to live out their faith in a secular society

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Toastmasters Bay to Bay

The 200 clubs of Toastmasters' District 4 spans the San Francisco peninsula down to Monterey. Toastmasters Bay to Bay is produced by District 4 Toastmasters as a platform for local Toastmasters to practice their public speaking skills on TV, and also lets non-Toastmaster members know what's involved in a Toastmasters meeting. Are you a Toastmaster? Find out what's happening in District 4. Not a Toastmaster? Tune in and see what it's all about!

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Veterans Helping Veterans

This long running series is Produced by the Veterans Employment Committee of San Mateo County.

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Website of Veterans Employment Committee of San Mateo County


Youth Advisory Council

The Media Center's Youth Team produces everything from public affairs to game shows as they perfect their video production chops. All from a youth perspective.

Learn More About the Media Center's Youth Advisory Council
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